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- Title
Developmentally Disabled Infants Can Be Hard to Trace.
- Authors
McLaughlin, John F.; Gustafson, Cheryl B.; Sutton, Mary; Stone, E. Franklin; Davis, Nora E. A.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine how well the existing medical care system in a large geographic region communicates about and keeps track of the developmental problems of infants receiving tertiary inpatient care. Two hundred thirty-seven infants hospitalized in the first months of life were tracked, using a postal questionnaire at a mean age of 20 months. A discharge summary was present in 98 percent of charts, and a follow-up physician was identified in 95%. Questionnaires were returned by 116 physicians about 182 infants (77%). Seventy-one physicians had received a discharge summary. Current developmental information was obtained for 111 infants: 44 normal, 52 with known disabilities, and 15 with developmental delays. One hundred twenty-six infants could not be located at the time of the study. We conclude that many infants likely to have major disabilities are hard to track using simple retrospective techniques.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with developmental disabilities; MEDICAL care; NEWBORN infants; INFANTS with disabilities; CHILDREN with disabilities; INFANTS with perceptual disabilities; FIRST aid in illness &; injury
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 1984, Vol 23, Issue 4, p204
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000992288402300403